domingo, 14 de febrero de 2016

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General English Course for BA Students
FECHA EN LA QUE SE ELABORÓ LA DESCRIPCIÓN DEL CURSO: 14 de febrero de 2018.
HORARIO:                                            Virtual learning      
HORAS TOTALES:                             4 Teóricas: 1  Prácticas: 4                                                                               
INSTRUCTOR DEL CURSO:   Prof. Dimas Eduardo Fuentes, Magister en Lingüística Aplicada con Especialidad en Fonética y Fonología. Facultad de Humanidades; Departamento de Inglés, Escuela de Inglés. Universidad de Panamá. 
INFORMACION DE CONTACTO:   contact_28@hotmail.com;  
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BIENVENIDA
Buenos días estimados participantes,
Es para mí un placer darte una cordial bienvenida a este su curso denominado INTENSIVE GENERAL ENGLISH COURSE FOR BA STUDENTS, bajo la modalidad semi-presencial a distancia. Quiero felicitarte por haber registrado en este curso, ya que como podrás comprobar al terminar el mismo, te será de mucha utilidad, ya sea al momento de incorporarte a tu campo laboral, como al interactuar y comunicarte de forma verbal y escrita en inglés con otras personas en tus actividades cotidianas. Te invito a que veas el contenido, las actividades y revises la programación de actividades y exámenes.
Estoy a su completa disposición para aclarar cualquier duda u ofrecerle una respuesta a cualquier pregunta relacionada a curso que tenga a lo largo del curso y espero formemos un buen equipo de trabajo durante la duración del mismo.
Saludos,
Sr. Dimas Fuentes

Profesor de Inglés. 

COURSE SYLLABUS/OUTLINE
Under the request of dictating a basic English course for a pre-graduate adult language learner, who must meet with the graduation requirements as an option to the certification examination, I have prepared an intensive holistic program intended for false beginners to elementary students to be given in a period of 40 hours. The course will be held in Chepo Community College every Tuesday. The following is a brief outline of the course syllabus.

A.   Language skills (doing):
Receptive:
a.    Listening
b.    Reading
Productive:
a.    Speaking
b.    writing
B.   Language Systems (knowing):
1.    Semantics and Pragmatics (meaning and meaning in context: manner, place and time)
a.    How to use a bilingual dictionary
b.    Meaning of the abbreviations next to the entries
c.    Phraseology
2.    (morphology)
a.    Affixes (un-; dis-)
b.    Suffixes (-cal; -tion)
3.    Syntax (grammar; form)
a.    Personal pronouns, possessive pronouns, possessive adjectives (his, her, its, their, our), object pronouns (me, you, him, her, us, them).
b.    I am hungry (simple present), she is. She is afraid of the dog.
c.    Present progressive (plans vs. intentions), verb be auxiliary.
d.    Simple past (verb be, regular verbs *-ed inflection*, irregular verbs, time expressions *positioning*, -ed inflection pronunciation.
e.    Present perfect, adverbs of manner and time
f.     Simple future, time expressions, will vs. going to
g.    Modals auxiliary
h.    Conditionals I & II
i.      Comparative and superlative degree.
j.      Conjunctions: for, and, nor, but, or, yet
k.    Because of, so, so that, however, although, though.
l.      Wh-question words
m.   That as a clause
n.    Prepositions

4.    Phonology & phonetics (pronunciation)
a.    Vowels
b.    Diphthongs
c.    Consonants – tongue twister to improve the pronunciation
d.    Consonant clusters
e.    Syllables
f.     Stress
g.    Intonation
5.    Discourse (use)
a.    Exclamations
b.    commands
c.    Useful expressions
d.    Idioms
e.    Slangs
f.     sayings
C.   Language abilities
1.    Spelling – dictation (how to write words within a sentence properly)
2.    Lexical items
a.    Romance
b.    Health (part of the body, illness and diseases. Verb hurt)
c.    Places and Directions (Public buildings and businesses linked to prepositions and there is; there are)
d.    Color
e.    Occupations (linked to famous people from the past, recycling from vocabulary used in the first lesson)
f.     fruits
g.    Weather (It’s hot in here…; how’s the weather today in Bocas del Toro? Rainy, sunny, windy, partly cloudy; what’s the temperature? )
h.    dates, time and money (numbers: cardinal and ordinal)
i.      animals (pets)
j.      Emergencies (linked to part of the body: call an ambulance; a heart attack; he’s choking.)

Rationale:  Adults can keep focused on a task for longer spams of time when compared with adolescents or children. A need analysis is required to identify individual differences and learning styles. Research has shown that most adults are visual learners. But it does not mean there might not be other learning styles represented in a highly heterogeneous class like this. 

Methodology:
ü  Silent way
ü  Audiolingual Method
ü  Functional Approach
ü  Natural Approach
ü  Communicative language teaching (CLT)
ü  Task-Based Learning (TBL)
ü  Total-Physical Response (TPR)

Nunan’s suggestion is to have the students figure it out the meaning; make sense out of it. Noticing is a key concept within this technique which demands a lot from students as they have to think logically from the general to a specific reasoning.

Materials:


Dictation
Dictionaries
Drama
Drills
Flashcards
The internet
Intuition
Songs and music
The learner’s first language
Timelines
Videos and DVD
Word games
Multimedia projector
Computer
White board
Markers



References:
Badalamenti, V. and Stanchina, C.H. (2007). Grammar Dimensions, Form, meaning and use, 4th edition. Thomson Heile.
Celce-Murcia, M. and Freeman, D. (1999). The grammar book. Heinle and Heinle Publishers.
Dooley, J. & Evans, V. (2008). Blockbuster, Student book 1b. Express Publishing.
Global English Academy, Oceano Beginners.
Gruttenden, A. (2001). Gimson’s Pronunciation of English. The English vowels and diphthongs. P. 104-136. Arnold, London. UK
Ingles Fácil, 3ra edición revisada, 1989. Editorial América S.A.
Lee, L. et. al. (2005). All Star 1. McGraw Hill, NY.
Lee, L. et. al.(2005). All Star 2. Mc Graw Hill. NY.
Murray, Elena P. (1992). Business English vocabulary and spelling. Second Edition. McGraw Hill. Mexico.
Oxford Mini Dictionary (2005). Oxford University Press. UK
Richards Jack C. (2013). Interchange Intro Workbook, 4th Edition. Cambridge University Press. NY.
Saslow, J. & Asher, A. (2011). Top-Notch 1. Second Edition. Person Longman. NY.

Saslow, J. & Asher, A. (2011). Top-Notch 2.  Second Edition.  Person Education. NY.

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